Overview:

Aruba AirWave is a powerful and easy-to-use network operations system that not only manages wired and wireless infrastructure from Aruba and a wide range of third-party manufacturers, but also provides granular visibility into devices, users and applications on the network. With unprecedented insight and centralized control to effectively manage global enterprise infrastructures, AirWave lets IT organizations proactively optimize network performance, strengthen wireless security and improve the end-user experience.

The Aruba Clarity add-on module proactively analyzes end-users’ quality of experience by providing enhanced monitoring capabilities for critical network services, such as time and response failures for a mobile device to associate with a Wi-Fi radio. Other services monitored include authentication time period to a RADIUS server, gathering an IP address through DHCP, and resolution of names for DNS services. This gives IT organizations end-to-end visibility into problems before they escalate as metrics are monitored in real-time, and also captured through on-demand or scheduled testing for predictive insight.

AppRF provides deep visibility into common applications and web traffic on the network to ensure mission-critical apps get priority, users are not visting risky sites, or for simply gauging usage patterns. A dedicated UCC dashboard provides granular visibility into Unified Communications applications such as Skype for Business and all Wi-Fi calls traversing your network.

VisualRF location and mapping offers network-wide views of the entire RF environment. Maps of Wi-Fi coverage and the underlying wired topology show a clear and accurate picture of who is on the network, their location and how the network is performing. Additionally, overlays of client health and application performance can help to quickly diagnose issues specific to a client, a floor plan or specific location. Our AirWave RAPIDS rogue detection works with our RFProtect wireless intrusion protection software module to collect data and mitigate issues with rogue APs, rogue clients and wireless intrusion events across wired and wireless networks. The wireless data collected by RAPIDS is correlated with wired network data to identify the most significant and relevant threats, while greatly reducing false-positives and strengthening network security.

Available as software or a combined hardware and software appliance, AirWave gives IT the power to make intelligent, well-informed decisions about the network while reducing cost and complexity of improving service quality.

Solve connectivity issues before they happen

With the new Aruba Clarity module, AirWave proactively monitors critical non-RF metrics — the time it takes for a mobile device to associate with a Wi-Fi radio, authenticate to a RADIUS server, gather an IP address through DHCP, or resolve names for DNS services. With custom alerts and simulated client testing, Clarity lets IT take proactive action against future performance problems.

See what’s inside all those mobile apps

With Aruba AppRF, AirWave provides deep visibility into performance and usage of mobile and web apps. Reputation reports allow you to quickly take action against high risk sites and control Wi-Fi usage by app category. User role, device type and location specific insights let you make quick decisions to protect business critical apps.

Simplify management of multivendor networks

Get granular visibility across your entire access infrastructure and manage multiple generations of wired and wireless networks from just about any vendor – from controllerless to controller-managed and from legacy Wi-Fi to the latest 802.11ac WLANs

Features:

Real-Time Monitoring and Visibility

Automatically track every user and device – wireless and remote – on the network.

Configuration Management

Define configuration policies through a web user interface or by importing known-good configuration from an existing device.

Configure Aruba Instant APs to provision a large number of branch locations with ease. Manage configurations across multiple locations with tools like adding notes, and overrides, as well as multi-edit and contextsensitivity support.

Support advanced firmware image upgrades with features such as enforcing certified versions by group, splitting-up image downloads and reboot processes, as well as support for scheduling of firmware upgrades or change configurations to occur during off hours.